Second City, meet ... Eighth City? (We've gotta work on that nickname.)

La Jolla Playhouse is officially announcing that those yuksters from the Chicago-spawned Second City Theatricals will roll out their new San Diego-centric show at the Playhouse beginning in August.

The piece is titled "The Good, the Bad and the I-5," and it's based on research the famed improv troupe conducted recently while embedded with San Diegans in their natural habitat. (Not naming names here, but one individual they interrogated mercilessly during some kind of lunch situation is a current U-T arts staffer, former longtime sports scribe.)

"The Good, the Bad and the I-5" (and let's hope the show isn't as redundant as the last two-thirds of that title) is set to run Aug. 6 to Sept. 1 in the Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Forum, with an official opening Aug. 8. Tickets are $15-$50, and are now available at (858) 550-1010 or lajollaplayhouse.org.

This, by the way, is Second City's third Playhouse visit in the past two years. Playhouse artistic director Christopher Ashley said the new show "both celebrates and spoofs our beloved city."

And between this and "Anchorman" (not to mention multiple counts of self-parody), San Diego should get a key to ... er, itself? ... for keeping the spoofery sector of the economy thriving.